2 Broke Girls is an American television sitcom that debuted on the CBS in 2011. The series is set in the Williamsburg neighborhood of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, United States. The show follows the misadventures of two young city women, Max Black and Caroline Channing, who come from two totally different backgrounds. While waitressing together at a greasy spoon diner, they strike up an unlikely friendship in the hopes of launching a successful cupcake business. On their way to success, there has many important people to help them and cheer them up. These people are the boss of the restaurant, Han Lee, the wretched Ukrainian cook, Oleg, and Earl, a 75-year-old black cashier, and finally Caroline's horse Chestnut. Now the show has already been broadcast for 2 seasons. The season 3 started on Sept. 24 this year. The show is famous for Max’s sharp tone, Caroline’s losses of face and at the end of each episode a tally shows how much they have made toward their goal of $250,000 needed to open their cupcake business.
Character Introduction
Max Black, one of the waitresses at the Williamsburg Diner. She's a poor working class girl who has had a rough childhood and current adult life, riven by genuine poverty and a childhood raised by a mother who was usually absent and was dangerously incompetent when she was around. Han initially allowed her to sell homemade cupcakes in the diner, which led to Caroline's idea to go into the cupcake business.
Caroline Channing, a new waitress at the Williamsburg Diner. She is a former rich, high society girl who lost all of her money when her father was jailed for a Ponzi scheme. She is forced to start over and becomes Max's co-worker, roommate and eventual best friend. She comes up with the idea of starting a cupcake business with Max. Earl, the cashier at the Williamsburg Diner, an elderly former jazz musician. Max is very close to him, frequently claiming she wishes he was her father. Oleg, a Ukrainian cook at the Williamsburg Diner. He is always sexually harassing Max and Caroline with inappropriate jokes, innuendo and propositions. He later develops an attraction to Sophie, and has a sex-only relationship with her. Han Lee, the owner of the Williamsburg Diner. A Korean-American who is constantly a target for jokes involving his height and lack of knowledge of American culture.
The episode is the first one, so it mainly describes the characters in the show and gives us some hints to guess what they’re going to do in the following episode.
This episode tells about an experienced waitress Max Black who meets her new colleague, Caroline Channing, a girl who had lived in a wealthy family before. At first, Max thought Caroline was a spoiled girl without any waiting skills. However, Max discovered that some of Caroline’s advice is helpful, and gradually erased her stereotype toward Caroline. What’s more, they ended up considering saving money to open a cupcake business.
You can find more information about 2 Broke Girls at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Broke_Girls
hipster:people who always put their hands in his jeans, hunch their back and try their best to hide their face with a hat, fur or glasses, and they always think that they are more special or cooler than others
horseradish: sauce made from horseradish (a plant with a long white root that has a strong taste) that is eaten cold with meat Red velvet: a kind of cake with red fillings which looks like the “velvet” cupcake: a word can be used like “honey” or “sweety” mustard: a dark yellow color apron: something that you wear to protect the front of your clothes, especially when you are cooking diner:A low cost restaurant that serves simple homestyle food. blonde:blonde hair is a stereotype of being a beautiful girl. This “beautiful standard” is usually along with other standards, including long hair, big breast and slender waist. hooker: people who earn money by selling their body crack: another name of cocaine, a kind of drug. Da boss: “Big” boss (“Da” sounds like Chinese “Big”.) judgmental: use it to describe a person who always judge people by their actions, behavior, and appearance enhanced:exaggerated or basically lied about one's experience. townhouse: an expensive house near the main part of a town or city bucket list: goals or dreams you must fulfill before you pass away. taser: a weapon that produces a strong electric current and that is used by police in some countries to stop people being violent or stop them from running away cufflinks: an object used instead of a button for fastening the cuff of a man's shirt crash:To stay at someone's house. Example: "If you can't get a taxi, you can crash at my place for the evening." grand:a grand = $1000 drug mules:People who take all the risks helping drug dealer to transfer drugs from one country to another country, and close the deal after they went through the customs safely. They are the bottom of the drug dealing.
Phrases:
She burned you:She said something witty and insulting that made the other person look bad. She's coming:In this episode, the sentence is a pun which means the waitress will come back to the job soon and she is going to reach the climax of sex. It's on the house:This means the restaurant is giving it to you for free. if you were just three years younger:She’s making a joke and implying that he’s just a LITTLE bit too old for her to date him. And there’s the formula for dating: man’s age/2+7=minimum value of women’s age. hit on someone: to try to start a conversation with someone because you are sexually attracted to them raises the bar: Imagine a high jump bar. When the bar is raised, everyone has to jump higher. marry the ketchups:This means to pour a half empty bottle into another half empty bottle to make one full bottle.
pocket the difference:Keep the profit for themselves It didn't feel pink: Pink here means more innocuous or not very fatal. You're getting me wet: Here means that she is getting water on her clothes. He means that he is making her sexually excited--therefore her vagina is getting wet.
Listening Activities
Comprehension Questions:
How many nannies does Peach have?
Which baby is the worse one?
How much money did Peach lose?
What is Peach's husband's name?
Why she thinks that being a mother is tiring?
How many friends rejected Caroline's request? Why?
Intensive Listening Activity: Listen and fill in your part of the transcript. You can work in a group to do this. Then get into a new groups of 3 and act out the scene.
How does Max’s attitude change? Why she changes her attitude?
If someone snaps his/her fingers at you, what will you feel? Why?
Why does Han Lee change his name?
Why did Max dump her boyfriend?
Why didn’t Caroline want to wear the uniform?
What do you think Max and Caroline will do in the following episodes?
Do you have any experience being hit on? How did it feel?
Can people from really different social classes become friends? How about best friends?
Cultural Notes
Coldplay
Coldplay are a British rock band formed in 1996 by lead vocalist Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldplay
Vladimir Puttin
Pun on the name of Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia. If a girl “puts out” she is willing to have sex with her boyfriend.
Han Lee (Bryce Lee)
Han Lee looks short, speaks a poor English and owns a restaurant. That is the stereotype of Chinese (or you can say Asian) for American. When it comes to Chinese, Bruce Lee also makes a deep impression to American.
Black man plays jazz
Jazz music is totally different from classical music. They initially were not regarded as “music” at all by white men, because it was played only for black and didn’t have the formal training system. Though now everyone loves jazz, people still think that black plays a good jazz music, for example, Earl.
skin tone
Some beauty consultants divide people into Spring, Summer, Winter, and Fall skin tones. And recommend certain colors to match each skin tone.
A show on bravo
TV network with a lot of trashy reality programs like the Real Housewives series of shows. http://www.bravotv.com/shows
Blonde hair girls are…… good for business
Blonde hair is a stereotype of being a beautiful girl. This “beautiful standard” is usually along with other standards, including long hair, big breast and slender waist.
Russian Hooker
Russian girls have nice looking, but Russia’s economic development is not so nice. So when people talk about Russian’s jobs, the first opinion coming to their mind is like hookers or drug mules, which receive no respect in society.
Temple Grandin is autistic and this is playing on the stereotype that autistic people will do something weird. Here the weird thing is imagining that the ketchup bottles can get married and divorced. Temple Grandin is also famous for arguing that the animals had feelings and emotions, so Max could also be referring to how Caroline acts like the bottles have consciousness. But here Max may want to say OCD. poke fun at her→←blonde hair like her
Anna Kournikova
Anna Kournikova is a gorgeous tennis athlete from Russia.
In the episode, Kournikova means beautiful girls with blonde hair. (Anna Kournikova is blonde.)
SAT
The SAT is a standardized test for most college admissions in the United States.The max score now is 2400. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT
Monster.com
the website which offer many job opportunities to those who has no job but looks for one http://www.monster.com/
A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money or the money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from profit earned by the individual or organization running the operation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme
Arnold had sex with the maid and got her pregnant. His wife only found out recently after the child was grown up. That's why they got divorced. Screwed can mean that you were taken advantage of and mistreated. It can also mean that you had sex with someone.
Stephen Hawking
Scientist that is in a wheel chair and can't move.
2 broke girls
Program Introduction
2 Broke Girls is an American television sitcom that debuted on the CBS in 2011. The series is set in the Williamsburg neighborhood of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, United States. The show follows the misadventures of two young city women, Max Black and Caroline Channing, who come from two totally different backgrounds. While waitressing together at a greasy spoon diner, they strike up an unlikely friendship in the hopes of launching a successful cupcake business. On their way to success, there has many important people to help them and cheer them up. These people are the boss of the restaurant, Han Lee, the wretched Ukrainian cook, Oleg, and Earl, a 75-year-old black cashier, and finally Caroline's horse Chestnut.Now the show has already been broadcast for 2 seasons. The season 3 started on Sept. 24 this year. The show is famous for Max’s sharp tone, Caroline’s losses of face and at the end of each episode a tally shows how much they have made toward their goal of $250,000 needed to open their cupcake business.
Character Introduction
Max Black, one of the waitresses at the Williamsburg Diner. She's a poor working class girl who has had a rough childhood and current adult life, riven by genuine poverty and a childhood raised by a mother who was usually absent and was dangerously incompetent when she was around. Han initially allowed her to sell homemade cupcakes in the diner, which led to Caroline's idea to go into the cupcake business.
Caroline Channing, a new waitress at the Williamsburg Diner. She is a former rich, high society girl who lost all of her money when her father was jailed for a Ponzi scheme. She is forced to start over and becomes Max's co-worker, roommate and eventual best friend. She comes up with the idea of starting a cupcake business with Max.Earl, the cashier at the Williamsburg Diner, an elderly former jazz musician. Max is very close to him, frequently claiming she wishes he was her father.
Oleg, a Ukrainian cook at the Williamsburg Diner. He is always sexually harassing Max and Caroline with inappropriate jokes, innuendo and propositions. He later develops an attraction to Sophie, and has a sex-only relationship with her.
Han Lee, the owner of the Williamsburg Diner. A Korean-American who is constantly a target for jokes involving his height and lack of knowledge of American culture.
Today's Episode
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The episode is the first one, so it mainly describes the characters in the show and gives us some hints to guess what they’re going to do in the following episode.
This episode tells about an experienced waitress Max Black who meets her new colleague, Caroline Channing, a girl who had lived in a wealthy family before. At first, Max thought Caroline was a spoiled girl without any waiting skills. However, Max discovered that some of Caroline’s advice is helpful, and gradually erased her stereotype toward Caroline. What’s more, they ended up considering saving money to open a cupcake business.
You can find more information about 2 Broke Girls at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Broke_Girls
Here is a link to the original script to the episode:
http://www.zen134237.zen.co.uk/Two_Broke_Girls_1x01_-_Pilot.pdf
Here is the Official website of 2 Broke Girls:
http://www.cbs.com/shows/2_broke_girls/
Here is the website of 2 Broke Girls at the __Internet Movie Database__:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1845307/
Here is the website shows many interesting sidelights of 2 Broke Girls:
http://www.tv.com/shows/2-broke-girls/watch/
Vocabulary
hipster: people who always put their hands in his jeans, hunch their back and try their best to hide their face with a hat, fur or glasses, and they always think that they are more special or cooler than others
horseradish: sauce made from horseradish (a plant with a long white root that has a strong taste) that is eaten cold with meat
Red velvet: a kind of cake with red fillings which looks like the “velvet”
cupcake: a word can be used like “honey” or “sweety”
mustard: a dark yellow color
apron: something that you wear to protect the front of your clothes, especially when you are cooking
diner:A low cost restaurant that serves simple homestyle food.
blonde:blonde hair is a stereotype of being a beautiful girl. This “beautiful standard” is usually along with other standards, including long hair, big breast and slender waist.
hooker: people who earn money by selling their body
crack: another name of cocaine, a kind of drug.
Da boss: “Big” boss (“Da” sounds like Chinese “Big”.)
judgmental: use it to describe a person who always judge people by their actions, behavior, and appearance
enhanced:exaggerated or basically lied about one's experience.
townhouse: an expensive house near the main part of a town or city
bucket list: goals or dreams you must fulfill before you pass away.
taser: a weapon that produces a strong electric current and that is used by police in some countries to stop people being violent or stop them from running away
cufflinks: an object used instead of a button for fastening the cuff of a man's shirt
crash:To stay at someone's house. Example: "If you can't get a taxi, you can crash at my place for the evening."
grand:a grand = $1000
drug mules:People who take all the risks helping drug dealer to transfer drugs from one country to another country, and close the deal after they went through the customs safely. They are the bottom of the drug dealing.
Phrases:
She burned you:She said something witty and insulting that made the other person look bad.
She's coming: In this episode, the sentence is a pun which means the waitress will come back to the job soon and she is going to reach the climax of sex.
It's on the house:This means the restaurant is giving it to you for free.
if you were just three years younger:She’s making a joke and implying that he’s just a LITTLE bit too old for her to date him. And there’s the formula for dating: man’s age/2+7=minimum value of women’s age.
hit on someone: to try to start a conversation with someone because you are sexually attracted to them
raises the bar: Imagine a high jump bar. When the bar is raised, everyone has to jump higher.
marry the ketchups:This means to pour a half empty bottle into another half empty bottle to make one full bottle.
pocket the difference:Keep the profit for themselves
It didn't feel pink: Pink here means more innocuous or not very fatal.
You're getting me wet: Here means that she is getting water on her clothes. He means that he is making her sexually excited--therefore her vagina is getting wet.
Listening Activities
Comprehension Questions:- How many nannies does Peach have?
- Which baby is the worse one?
- How much money did Peach lose?
- What is Peach's husband's name?
- Why she thinks that being a mother is tiring?
- How many friends rejected Caroline's request? Why?
Intensive Listening Activity: Listen and fill in your part of the transcript. You can work in a group to do this. Then get into a new groups of 3 and act out the scene.Discussion Questions
Cultural Notes
Coldplay
Coldplay are a British rock band formed in 1996 by lead vocalist Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldplay
Vladimir Puttin
Pun on the name of Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia. If a girl “puts out” she is willing to have sex with her boyfriend.Han Lee (Bryce Lee)
Han Lee looks short, speaks a poor English and owns a restaurant. That is the stereotype of Chinese (or you can say Asian) for American. When it comes to Chinese, Bruce Lee also makes a deep impression to American.Black man plays jazz
Jazz music is totally different from classical music. They initially were not regarded as “music” at all by white men, because it was played only for black and didn’t have the formal training system. Though now everyone loves jazz, people still think that black plays a good jazz music, for example, Earl.skin tone
Some beauty consultants divide people into Spring, Summer, Winter, and Fall skin tones. And recommend certain colors to match each skin tone.A show on bravo
TV network with a lot of trashy reality programs like the Real Housewives series of shows.http://www.bravotv.com/shows
Blonde hair girls are…… good for business
Blonde hair is a stereotype of being a beautiful girl. This “beautiful standard” is usually along with other standards, including long hair, big breast and slender waist.Russian Hooker
Russian girls have nice looking, but Russia’s economic development is not so nice. So when people talk about Russian’s jobs, the first opinion coming to their mind is like hookers or drug mules, which receive no respect in society.meth addict & teeth fall out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetaminehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meth_mouth
Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin is autistic and this is playing on the stereotype that autistic people will do something weird. Here the weird thing is imagining that the ketchup bottles can get married and divorced. Temple Grandin is also famous for arguing that the animals had feelings and emotions, so Max could also be referring to how Caroline acts like the bottles have consciousness. But here Max may want to say OCD.Anna Kournikova
Anna Kournikova is a gorgeous tennis athlete from Russia.In the episode, Kournikova means beautiful girls with blonde hair. (Anna Kournikova is blonde.)
SAT
The SAT is a standardized test for most college admissions in the United States.The max score now is 2400.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT
Monster.com
the website which offer many job opportunities to those who has no job but looks for onehttp://www.monster.com/
the secret
This is a book.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_%28book%29
Brangelina
Named for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.Ponzi scheme
A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money or the money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from profit earned by the individual or organization running the operation.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme
wearing white after a labor day
Fashion rule created by old money millionaires.http://mentalfloss.com/article/12424/why-can%E2%80%99t-you-wear-white-after-labor-day
Maid at the Schwarzenegger house
Arnold had sex with the maid and got her pregnant. His wife only found out recently after the child was grown up. That's why they got divorced. Screwed can mean that you were taken advantage of and mistreated. It can also mean that you had sex with someone.Stephen Hawking
Scientist that is in a wheel chair and can't move.